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Sunday, December 19, 2010

Math Ideas Work Box

What goes in yours?

I know some use curriculum with their own maniplulatives and some have none, but what about adding to it, or other types of Math Work Box ideas. Get creative, think about what is around your house.

Pom-Poms- Counters, Sorting, Graphing

Popsicle Sticks and Beans- To make base 10 blocks and hundred blocks

Measuring Cups in many shapes and sizes- Provide many different things to measure like, water, colored water, rice, beans, flour, corn starch, and other items. You can provide paper and graph the differences between the materials.

Measuring Spoons- Same as above.

Measuring Bowls - Same as above.

Refrigerator magnets from businesses (Cut them up and glue them to manipulatives.)

Different sized boxes

AAA has free maps available at the end of the year.

Buttons in different sizes and shapes.

A loop of thread stretched over two pencils (or a pencil and a toothpick) becomes a compass.

Nature's manipulatives - including twigs, leaves, nuts, berries

Toothpicks

Beans in different colors and shapes.

Plus many, many more.. go look add them to the Math Work Box see what your child comes up with.

Here are a couple of ideas to get those Math gears moving:

Geometry dominoes would also be a great idea. Make domino cards. Begin by listing all kinds of geometry words and have pictures to match each one. Examples: one half could be a square, the other half could have the word rectangle, one half could be a picture of a cone, the other half could be the word rectangular prism. Be sure your words match your pictures.

You could also make dominoes for fractions. The fraction would be on one half of the card, and a picture would be on the other half. The pictures could be different shapes that are shaded to match the fractions you are using...circles, squares, rectangles, pentagons, etc.

Math Math file folder games and centers, add them to your Math Box

Here are some fun things to put into and sites to use with your Math Boxes

http://familycrafts.about.com/cs/homemadegames/a/blfcmathgm.htm

http://familycrafts.about.com/od/valentinesday/a/HeartCountingGame.htm

http://www.ilovethatteachingidea.com/ideas/subj_math.htm

http://mathforum.org/workshops/sum98/participants/sanders/

http://mathforum.org/teachers/high/lessons-individual.html

http://mathforum.org/teachers/middle/lessons-collections.html

http://www.ehow.com/how_6194516_make-math-fun-home.html

http://www.ehow.com/how_2244164_math-fun-through-inexpensive-games.html

http://www.mathcats.com/mathtoolbox/index.html

http://www.bukisa.com/articles/106914_using-household-materials-as-math-manipulatives

So The Work Box Community wants to know what goes into your math Work Box? If your leaving a link, please write a small blurb of what the content is about. Ideas welcome for all grade levels and abilities and anything Math related. Please no ads of your selling a product.

24 comments:

  1. Children learn math in different ways. ANY way to make it fun and exciting is a good thing (as long as they learn the concept).

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    more here:
    http://dthaase-lines.blogspot.com/p/wonder.html

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